The New York Herald Newspaper, February 21, 1874, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD, NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. Subscriptions and Advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. ANUSENESTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING nomena, yap bl dy or x ti nd Thirteenth sireet—. at ay aroun eM. Me. Lester Wallack, Miss Jeffreys Lew OLYMPIC THEATR! Broadway, between Houston and Bleacker streets.— VAUDRVILLE and NOVELTY ENTERTAINMENT, at 8 P.M. ;closes at P.M. Matinee at3 P, Al. GERMANIA THEATRE, Fourteenth street—KINiés VORNEHME BHE, at 8 P. M.; eioses at LLP. Me BROOKLYN PARK THEATRE, opposite City Hall, Brooklyn. —WHITE SWAN, at 8 P. M., closes atl P, Matinee at 2 P.M. BOWERY THEATRE, foyer -eae FOR LIFS, at 8 P. M.; closes at IL "§ BROOKLYN THEATRE: MRS, CONWAY'S BRO YN per eed Washineto: treet, Brooklyn.—KATHAK. eerie eRe wer leeks at il Pei. Mrs Bowers Matines a2 P.M. 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Fourth avenue and T O¥ WATER COLOR METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, West Fourteenth street—The Di Cesuoisa Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus, & TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Saturday, Feb. 21, 1874. THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. To-Day’s Contents ot the Herald. THE DISRAELI CABINET! THE PREMIER AT THE ROYAL PALACE—GENERAL WOLSE- LEY A HEAVY L@SER BY THE BURNING UF THE PANTECHNICON—Smventu Pacs, CIVIL WAR IN JAPAN! THE PEOPLE CLAMOR- OUS FOR WAR UPON LOREA! IWAKURA RESIGNS—SEVENTH PAGE. FRENCH GOVERNMENT REPRESSION OF BONA- | PARTISM—LAUNCH OF A NEW CABLE- LAYING VESSEL—Srventu Pace. THE MEXICAN PRESIDENT AND CABINET ON A TOUR IN THE REPUBLIC! HUNTING OUT- LAWS—SEVENTH Pace. VERY GOOD REASONS FOR IMPEACHING DU- | RELL! EVIDENCE OF MARSHAL PACK- ARD AND MR, BECKWITH—Firtu Pace. THE DURELL-NORTON BANKRUPTCY SPIDERS! A PAYING BUSINESS! THE ENTIRE SUB- STANCE OF THE POOR VICTIMS SWAL- LOWED UP REMORSELESSLY—FirrH Pace. THE ENGLISH CONSERVATIVES’ MEANING! THE RELIGIOUS QUESTION! THE PAPAL SYMPATHIZERS’ THIBD Pag. PRINCE BISMARCK’S MASTERY IN EUROPEAN POLITICS! HOW HE ACHIEVED AND HOLDS IT! THE CATHULIC PERSECU- TIONS—LA MARMORA’S PROOFS AGAINST BISMARCK—FourTH Pace. STATE LEGISLATIVE BUSINESS YESTERDAY GOVERNOR DIX OUSTS DISTRICT ATTOR- NEY BRITTON—Seventu Page. RESULTS OF THE SIAMESE TWIN AUTOPSY— THE PERTURBED REDSKINS! PEACE TALK AND CAVALRY RAIDS—TeyruH Pace. LIMITED INFLATION THE RESULT OF THE CON- GRESSIONAL STRU ! REDISTRIBU- TION OF THE CURRENCY A GHOST TO BE YET LAID—TuiRp Pace. THE GOVERNORS OF THE STOCK BOARD FAIL IN THE INQUIRY INTO THE RECENT FORGED LETTER SWINDLE—ART NOVEL TIES—THIRD PAGE. A YOUNG LADY GIVES $500 TO THE POOR! THE WORK OF CHARITABLE RELIEF YESTER- DAY! AT THB SOUP KITCHENS: THE THEATRES AND THE POOR—EicurTn Pace. PITIFUL CONDITION OF THE NEW ENGLAND POOR! THE MILL OPERATIVES BUSY— | he has brought great discredit upon the Bench, | plenty sre equally on their trial, MORE MASKED BURGLARS GIVEN TWENTY- YEAR TERMS—FirtH PaGR. Tue Cuarrry Quack bids fair to become as celebrated a personage as Cagliostro. The charity quack isa person who advertises hig humanity as an inducement to pay him money for the poor and applies the money to the purposes of ‘salary.’ Neourctmye His Dury.—Governor Dix has removed from office Mr. Britton, the District Attomey of Kings county, and gives dis- tinctly his reasons for it, which will be found in another column. One quite sufficient reason relates to the case of Badean, who, in viola- tion of the law, kept public money on deposit to his own account in the banks of Brooklyn, and Mr, Britton, who should have prosecuted him, ‘neglected to perform his duty.’’ There are other reasons, but this is enough, ede VIUTORY! ITS | MEETING— | Impeachment of Judge Durell—Tane Duty of Congress. The evidence we printed yesterday, to- gether with the analysis of Norton’s bank- ruptey proceedings, and the additional testi- mony of Marshal Packard and Mr. Beckwith, which we print this morning, show con- clusively the necessity of Judge Durell’s im- peachment. As regards the political charac- ter of Durell’s conduct the testimony of all the witnesses who were present when the famous Mechanics’ Institute order, restraining the McEnery Legislature, was issued, was so deftly given as to shed but little new light upon the question. Nothing certain seems to be de- rivable from it except that the Judge issued this order of his own motion and that he justified it by the rather gro- tesque remark that at one time Lord Bacon issued a similar order.. Judge Durell is not the rival of Lord Bacon either as the greatest or the meanest of mankind, else we might grieve over tho fact that he was not more spe- cific with regard to his Baconian precedent. There is this, however, about the testimony, that it narrows the whole question of the Judge's conduct to the legality of the order. The questions of fact are all settled, and set- tled as favorably for Judge Durell as it he had had the naming of the committee of investi- gation. The argument, both as it affocts Durell’s conduct as a judge and the right of McEnery and the people of Louisiana, hinges upon the order itself, Even if we thought no great moral wrong attached to Judge Durell, we should demand his impeachment as the best means of determining the power of fed- eral judges over the governmental machinery of the States; but aside from this important matter there are other considerations which demand his trial and the determination of his guilt, Judge Durell is charged with complicity with Norton in controlling the entire bank- rufptey business of the State, and even, in conjunction with a creature of his own making, with profiting from the miseries of the people. The testimony taken before the Con- gressional Investigating Committee, which is | very voluminous on this point, has an ugly | look. Norton was the intimate friend of | Judge Durell, and Durell made him a sort of | universal assignee in bankruptcy for the entire State of Louisiana. The creditors of a bank- rupt were seldom allowed to choose their own assignee, and the assignee appointed by Judge Durell, that is, Norton, seldom condescended to share with the creditors the proceeds of bankruptcy sales. The people of Louisiana being poor the bankrupts of that State usually | show assets in very small amounts; hence it | was comparatively easy for Norton to swallow | | up everything in costs and charges. In many | cases these were enormous, the assignee | | in bankruptey regarding it as a set- | j led policy on his part that, whatever | the sums realized upon the sales of bankrupts’ | estates, the whole amount belonged to him and | his friends for their trouble in the matter. | He kept from the creditors all he could get, ‘and waited anxiously for Judge Durell to afford him new opportunities for obtaining more. In making his returns he never troubled himself about vouchers for his al- | leged expenditures, and Judge Durell did not | require them, but confirmed him in the pos- session of all that he had got. The abuse was a crying evil in the State—a condition of pub- | lic administration which pointed inevitably to corruption in public officers and even in the judiciary. Norton was publicly and privately charged with being the tool of Durell, and | with confiscating estates to his own profit and that of his master. Durell could not have been in ignorance of these scandals, yet he continued to appoint Norton assignee in bank- ruptcy all the same and to confirm his whole- sale confiscations of bankrupt estates. In all these matters we do not charge actual guilt | upon Durell. He, of course, claims that he is innocent, and Norton says he never received any of the money he had so generously per- | mitted his assignee in bankruptcy to appro- | priate. We are disposed rather to regard the | action taken by the Investigating Committee— though what the real action of the committee | will be remains to be seen—as a mere prelimi- | | nary examination; but the testimony, as we | said before, clearly shows the necessity of Judge Durell’s impeachment, and we cannot see how Mr. Wilson and his colleagues can avoid presenting articles against him. There is just cause for his being brought to trial, and this determines the whole question of the necessity of his impeachment. There are serious charges against Judge Durell in other respects. Abundant testi- mony, taken before the committee of Congress, shows that he was often guilty of conduct un- becoming a jurist. He was frequently rough and discourteous toward the Bar, and, in the language of some of the witnesses, he was often ‘‘excited,’’ but, in the opinion of others, intoxicated, upon the Bench. He was not only arbitrary in many of the cases which he heard, | but he was, besides, illogical and illegal in his rulings. There was nothing proved against any of our State judges, impeached two years | ago, that equals even the least of the charges preferred against Judge Durell. If the alleged | partnership with Norton was true he used | his high office to rob the poor people of | the whole State in the name and by | the execution of the law. To say that these | charges are not true will not meet the necessi- | | ties of the case, even if every one of them be | false. And, as we have just pointed ont, | there are so many other charges urged in con- | junction with this great offence and his extraor- | | dinary order nullifying the will of the people of Louisiana, that it is impossible to look upon him without grave apprehensions that both by unseemly conduct and a corrupt ad- | | Louisiana, and this we trust Congress will yet | mising tory. Lord John Manners becomes ministration of justice. If one-half that is in testimony ageinst him be true his is a case for | extreme and exemplary punishment ; and if | these things are falsehoods, incapable of cor- | | roboration, it is equally important that his in- | | nocence should be shown above so many evi- | dences of his guilt. | The political condition of Louisiana re- | mains unchanged by anything contained in this testimony. No attempt was made to | } prove the right of either Kellogg or McEnery | | to the Governorship, and all that is shown is | | that Judge Durell’s order was born of his own | | sweet will. Neither Senator Morton nor Sen- | ator Carpenter will find any new inspiration | } for the best way out of the Louisiana difficulty. | But in all of this testimony one thing | | stands out boldly before the country— namely, that a federal indga nn- dertook to make and unmake governors for a sovereign State. Political partisanship and the confirmation of his political and personal friends in office were the only motives that he could have for an act eo dangerous to re- tions. The times were exciting, it is true, and his friends aver that he was in fear of personal violence; but we cannot think Judge Durell would overturn a State govern- ment to save his life when he bad it in his power to run away. Mr. E. ©. Billings, one of Kellogg's counsel, who was, present when the order was drawn, thought he know why Judge Durell promulgated it; but as he did not state his inference even we may pre- sume it was the same as ours, and that the or- der was issued to secure the supremacy of the republican party in the State, thereby placing the local government in the hands of the few men who managed the federal authority in Louisiana. In consequence of allthis, though the investigating committee brought nothing to light to help the republican leaders in Con- gress out of their dilemma, it has made Judge Durell an exceedingly heavy load for the party. Even though Morton should succeed in denying justice to the people, thinking it safe for Congress to nullify a popular election, the party cannot afford to sanction its nullification by Judge Durell, Either his order must be disavowed by his impeachment, or all the consequences of avowing and sus- taining it be borne by the party which sanc- tions and abets his policy. A paramount con- sideration after all is justice to the people of accord them. In any event, it will not do to allow the man acensed of all the mischief to escape a trial. He may have been made the tool of other ambitious men, but he took too bold a position to escape the consequences of his acts on the bench and of his order nullify- ing a popular election. Impeachment is an extreme remedy, never to be resorted to except in cases of the extremest need ; but nothing is so terrible ag a corrupt and tyrannical judiciary. This is a case where the federal courts and the country ask that the Bench shall be purified or be shown to be pure. Now that the testimony upon which this demand is based has been made public through the Heraup Congress cannot evade the duty it owes to public virtue and judicial purity, to the very safety of the Commonwealth. The New Sritish Mintstry. A cable despatch, special to the Hxnatp, gives us a later and corrected version of the new British Ministry. Mr. Disraeli is to be First Lord of the Treasury. Lord Cairns | takes his old place on the woolsack. The Duke of Richmond is named as President of | the Council; in the last Disraeli administra- tion he was President of ‘the Board of Trade. Sir Stafford Northcote is the Chancellor of the Exchequer; in 1868 this office was held | by Mr. Ward Hunt. Lord Derby reappears as Foreign Secretary. The colonies are to be | entrusted to the care of the Earl of Carnarvon. | Mr. Cross is to take charge of the Home | Department. India is again to be entrusted | to the care of the Marquis of Salisbury, one of the ablest of the younger members of the Peerage ot England, but a most uncompro- Postmaster General; the War Department is to be entrusted to Mr. Gathorne Hardy, and the Admiralty to Mr. Ward Hunt; the Earl of Malmesbury is Lord Privy Seal. What are called the outside Ministers have not yet been placed. Mr. Disraeli, it will thus be seen, has made the best use possible of his old triends, We notice no new names which indicate any real accession of strength to the tory party. There are no signs as yet that Mr. Disraeli will be able to make any use of any prominent liberal. How Many Loaves or Brean are necessary to pay a Brace-and-Barnard salary? How many families would these loaves keep from want? Ler Us Have Licnt.—A few years ago a Home for Young Women was established on Mott street by charitable contributions. Some of the trustees of this Home were trustees also for Barnard’s Five Points House of Industry. The ‘Home’ was a failure. Subscriptions did not come in liberally enough to support the institution after the property had been purchased and the ‘‘Home’’ established; so the Five Points House of Industry assumed charge of the ‘‘Home,”’ took it off the hands of the trustees, assuming the mortgage on the property. Under the new management the “‘Home’’ was run for about a year, when it was closed, and the property sold by the trustees of the Five Points House of Industry. We have seen no report of the sale and no ac- count of what became of the proceeds. Was such a report ever made? Will the experi- enced Superintendent Barnard give us the information ? Sr. Pavt, in his observations upon charity, says nothing about charity at so many hundred dollars a year. Let us have a commentary on the Scriptures, giving new readings of St. Paul according to Brace and Barnard. A Graceror Grrr.—Yesterday a lady called at this office and generously handed over five hundred dollars, to be used at our discretion in the interests of the poor. We cannot re- fuse to call this @ graceful gift. In itself handsome, it was tastefully given, and no publicity was asked. How many could do the same! How many will? In this city genuine Christianity is being put to the test. ‘Those who are in need and those who have Such ex- amples as the above cannot be too highly praised. Ture 1s A Story of a Queen of Spain who was burned to death surrounded by her courtiers because the lady in waiting whose duty it was'to attend the sacred person of Her Majesty was absent. The charity quack would rather see thousands perish from star- vation than have a dinner given to the poor which did not at first contribute to his ral ary. How Not To Do J1.—Police Commissioner Charlick was “investigated” by a committee of the Legislature, at the Fitth Avenue Hotel, last night, withcut effect. Whenever a com- mittee of the Legislature investigates, as afore- said, between seven and eleven P. M., at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, it is probably intended that nothing shall be done, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1874.—TRIPLE SHEET. The Siamese Twins—Results of the | Bismarck may not go as far as Waterloo Dissection. From the unsatisfactory and insufficient examination of the Siamese Twins, reported in the Philadelphia Medical Times, at least two important points seem to be clear—the twins possessed, respectively, completely separate peritoneal sacs, and no important artery or vein passed through the band of union or was in any way whatever the common property of the two. There was therefore no necessarily insuperable obstacle to a successful operation for the separation of these persons. They might have been cut apart without any danger that could be regarded as especially peculiar to their case—as apart, that is to say, from the danger inseparable from any operation. We say that from the report referred to these points ‘‘seem to be clear,'’ because the one in regard to the vessels is only made out negatively. Neither of the gentlemen who spoke as demonstrators in the case has told us affirmatively that there was no important vessel passing through the band, and this silence, considering the interest attaching to the point, is remarkable, even in the absence of such vessels; but it would be so much more remarkable if the vessels were there that We are forced to the conclusion idné were found. It is of course not credible that two professors, working seven or eight days at an anatomical specimen and giving a portion of their attention to determine the contents of a band four inches long and eight inches in circumference should have failed to discover in the band, if they were present, the very few large vessels that could have made an operation dangerous. Colored plaster thrown into the portal system of one passed into that of the other, but the injection which passed freely up the aorta of Eng indicated no communication, or Dr. Pan- coast would scarcely have failed to report it in referring to the portal connection. It may be taken, therefore, as clear that there was no connection of the circulatory system of the two that might not have been dealt with by the ordinary resources of surgery. All the re- ports hitherto heard in regard to the fainting of one or both the twins when pressure was made on the band were either fic- tions altogether or the exaggerations of un- easiness due to fright. Although each abdominal cavity was com- pletely separate from the other there was a certain peritoneal implication due to the fact that pouches formed by the peritonsum passed one another from the respective sides of the band. The little balloons that are peddled along the streets as toys resemble closely, when fully inflated and stretched to their ut- most, the thin, transparent membrane called the peritoneum, which completely lines the abdominal cavity of human creatures as of animals. Pouches of this membrane went into the band from Eng’s abdomen and went beyond the middle line. Pouches did the same from Chang’s side; but though these pouches went thus beyond a middle point they passed each other and did not communicate. Careful dissection might, therefore, have sep- arated the twins without opening either peri- tonwum, and the only obstacles to division beyond mere skin and muscle were whatever vessels may have been involved in the com- munications of the portal system, and these, from deductions made from the physiological relations of the two daring life, could not have been considerable. Bismarck and His Position many. We understand the world in which we-live more clearly when we know the men who move it. It bas been the aim of the Hznatp, in illus- trating and narrating the momentous and in- teresting events in Europe, to tell our readers of the men to whom destiny committed these events. Guizot, Gladstone, Thiers, MacMahon, Disraeli, Prince Napoleon, Gambetta, Cas- telar, Serrano, all have been drawn at length in these columns. To this group we this morning add Bismarck. So much has been said about the German Chan- cellor in the past few years, he is so tower- ing and prodigious a figure in our history, that any narrative concerning his life and achievements will have an unusual interest, especially st this time. For great as have been the labors of Bismarck in the overthrow of France and the unification of Germany, he has accepted a task infinitely more onerous in his war upon the Papacy. In one of the recent addresses of Mr. Disraeli he speaks of a conversation with Bis- marck at a time when he was passing through London to accept the Premiership of the Prussian monarchy. ‘I am going home,” he said, ‘to rid my country of the professors.’’ A career that began with this unchecked con- tempt for the pedantry of statesmanship and government would naturally develop into the man whom our Berlin correspondent sketches with so much brilliancy and grace. There isa trait of Mephistopheles in his avowed admiration for France and French ways, especially France according to Na- poleon, when we remember his merciless policy of blood and iron after Sedan. There is a danger, at which our correspondent gently hints, that in his war upon the Roman Church the great statesman has assumed a task beyond his strength or the strength of his Empire. It would not surprise us if our correspondent’s prediction were to be verified, When a commonwealth invades a religion we see tangible power making war upon an intangible power, the influence of a government arrayed against a sentiment. Upon what basis must this contest be fought? Bismarck cannot invade Rome, or capture the Pope, or make the head oft the Roman Church any less sacred in the eyes of Catho- lies by imposing personal violence upon him. The very nature of the Papal office is to invite the severest enmity of the heretic rulers, be- cause in the eyes of believers such acts be- come martyrdom, and it isa canon that the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church, How, then, can any commonwealth or any prince punish a power which welcomes all punishment as a crown of glory and triumph? A greater than Bismarck—Napoleon the First—made a war upon the Papacy, which began with the invasion of the Pontifical do- minions and ended with the imprisonment of the Pontiff. But in the end Napoleon fell. The policy which found it necessary to assail the head of that Church took effect in wars against Russia ond invasions of Germany and ended in Elba and Waterloo.: If Napoleon in ten years could pass from Austerlitz to St. Helena there is no asssnrence that even in Ger- on his way from Sedan. It is some- thing to win great victories, but it is more to conservate their results. Even Moltke tells us in a military way that fifty years of a standing army will be neces- sary to consolidate Alsace and Lorraine with Germany, Would it not be wise, therefore, for even as illustrious a man as Bismarck, with this half century task before him, to make sure he had assured peace to Germany before making war upon the Papacy? The Currency Question in the Sen- ate—The Four Hundred Million Limit Ordered. With the resumption of the regular order in the Senate yesterday—the Dill transferring twenty-five millions of currency from the East to the West—the immediate question was upon a reconsideration of Mr. Cooper's propo- sition to recommit to the Finance Committee, with instructions to report a bili providing for the convertibility of United States Treasury notes into gold coin or five per cent bonds, and also for free banking under the existing National Bank act, The debate on the gen- eral question in all its bearings was reopened end continued for several hours, when Mr. Ferry, of Connecticut, moved to lay the whole subject on the table, This proceeding would leave ‘the Senate ag it was on tho Ist of December, The proposition Was tejectéd two to one, the ‘masterly inactivity” men chiefly supporting it. Next tho recon- sideration was carried by 82 to 23, and Mr. Cooper's instructions were rejected, as they were construed to mean either inflation or con- traction at the option of the committee. The issue was thus reduced to Merrimon's propo- sition instructing the committee to report a bill increasing the national bank currency 80 that the whole volume ghall not exceed four hundred millions, which means an addition of forty-six millions to the present circulation. The motion was carried—28 to 25—a division which indicates the’ strength of the contrac- tionists even against this limited inflation. A motion was next made to instruct the com- mittee to provide for free banking under the existing Banking law, and upon this ques- tion—Mr. Schurz, a leading contractionist, having the floor—the whole subject goes over to Monday next. The week's discussion has developed these facte—that so far the free bankers are in minority ; that the inflationists distrust the Finance Committee ; that the contractionists regard that committee as their ark of safety, and that as there is no recognized leader or authority on the subject, as party lines and even sectional lines are obliterated, the Senate is all at seacon the general question. As to the instructions, therefore, which will finally be given Mr. Sherman’s committee, the whole subject is still at the mercy of the winds and waves ; butso far we are rather strengthened than weakened in the opinion that the forty- six million compromise, known as the four hundred million bill, is the strongest currency proposition in either House. The Fall of Gladstone. Our English correspondence—although dealing with events which have been, in a measure, anticipated by telegraph—possesses exceeding interest, as illustrating the canvass. As a matter of history we know that Mr. Gladstone has fallen, We now learn some of the causes that led to his fall. What it con- cerns us to know is how far this canvass represents the sober sentiment of England— how real and permanent is the conservative reaction. We have been so much accustomed | | This evening Mrs. Booth, of whom we take leave to the pranks of Mr. Disraeli that it would not be surprising if, in gaining power with a tory Parliament, he did not prove to be as extreme in his measures as Mr, Glad- stone. As our correspondent clearly shows, if the tory programme means anything, it is that there shall be a radical change in the princi- ples and traditions of English government. It is memorable that Disraeli made a ‘leap into the dark’’ upon a question of reform, taking his party with him. Rather than sur- render power he will take the plunge again. Our correspondent also dwells upon the dissatisfaction which Englishmen have felt with the ‘sometimes vacillating and some- times rash’’ policy of the Foreign Office. In Mr. Disraeli’s speeches he ingeniously hints that foreign affairs ore in most cases only another name for English affairs, and that “vigorous dealing” with other nations is necessary to the peace and glory of England. The Alabama arbitration case was made a conspicuous text, and tory states- men vied with each other in avowing that arbitration was a dishonor and that, rather than pay a penny of the Geneva indemnity, they ‘would have accepted any alternative, even war. We are sorry to see a canvass con- ducted upon this basis of false pretence, Mr. Gladstone's resolution to keep peace is one of the noblest achieve- ments of his Ministry. Mr. Disraeli is the last man to venture upon a new policy. As faras the Alabama arbitration is concerned, England gained infinitely more from America in the adoption of the three rules of the treaty than the indemnity was worth. The Geneva arbitration was an example to mankind. These fervid tories may as well know now that if war had been preferable to arbitration they could easily have been accommodated with war. The canvass scems to have been marked with unusual anger. We read of riots and the interference of the military, We note per- sonal assaults and recriminations in the speeches of the leaders, which do not look well in a nation whose people have so much to say about rowdyism and _ill-temper in America, It has not been a happy nor in all respects a satisfactory canvass, England is in a temper, and dismisses Glad- stone in ill humor. He may never resume power, but his spirit and influence still live, and the party which he has led to so many victories will gather new strength from the chastening and find courage for new strag- gles upon newer and more radical issues. A Svocrsrion.—It the charity quacks, like Brace and Barnard, will only turn over their “salaries” to the poor, and earn their living from some other source than the humanity and liberality of the people, we shall be will ing, when the weather becomes more mod- erate, to favor a subscription for their benefit. Such a subscription woald be appropriate in the summer time, when the poor are not suf- fering, ee | Was not equally | the cast, A WOMAN'S VICTORY. The Supreme Judicial Court of Massa- chusetts Declare Ladies Eligible for Sehool ra. Boston, Feb. 20, 1874 Whether or no ® woman can legally hoid office under the laws of Massachusetts has been a subject of vexed discussion for some years and it 1s pleas ant to know that it has been summarily answered by the Justices of the Supreme Judicial Court, Boston, it seems, elected three ladies to serve upon its School Board (one of whom, Mrs. Ann Adeline Badger, since drowned herself in Long Island Sound); and when thes¢ iadies made claim to their seats the remaining membery of the Board voted thas they should be ousted, The question then went to the State Legulature and thence to the Supreme Court, which rendered the following decision this after- noon:— The Justices of the Supreme Jui fully’ subruit the following auswer tothe, GeuticfoR phish their opinion was required by tho ler of a ‘able House of Representatives of the resent month. th question is ie day at ler the constitution of this commonwealth ne & member o! m school commission tae ® uestion ts litnited to the effect of the ‘capacity of # woman to hold this office, and ta- he consti Th upon volves no interpretation of statutes. It tion revents® woman trom being a member of the School Jommission, 14 ust by \orce of some express provision thercot, of ise by uscéssary implication, arising either from the the oilico 2 or irom the law of when ry Massachusetts sth onsti ae adopted and in” the” Limit” of “which was adopter must be read, The constitution contains noth. iug relative to school commissions. The oflice fs created and reguisted by statute, and the consti tution confers upou the General Court tull power and guihority, to Maine and settle annually Pt Provide by xed laws tor naming and settling ‘all civil cers within the Soumoa wen th, bent Toop vont and const sation f ‘are not © constitution oiher wise provided for. The common law of “ngland, ‘winieh was our law a upon the sul permitted woman any local office of an administry . attiched to SAR . Hina e duties i aay fee d sation of children gud youth ‘in the town or tty ‘oe educa! 1 e cl which it tse! ated. ‘they aonsist ot the eueralobarge and superintendeuce o! the schools, sncluding crmpler> teachers, the selection of school books, an l registers god returns, and they uch & nature that they cannot be well and efficiently performed by women. The ne- cessary conclusion 1s that there is nothing in the Const. tuiion'of the Commonwealth to prevents woman from being » member of # School Commission, and that the question proposed must be respeouully answered in the affirmative. JOHN WELLS. MARCUS MORTON, JAMES D, COLT. WILLIAM 0, ENDICOTT, BATH AMES, CHARLES DEVENS, JB. HORACE GRAY, Worcester Female Taxpayers Deflant, WORCESTER, Mass., Feb. 20, 1874. The estates of S. S. and Abby Kelly Foster, Sarah Wall and Marietta Flagg, who refuse to pay taxea until women can vote, were offered for sale by tha tax collector to-day, to pay the taxes of 1872, The last named was bought in by a friend. but noone bid for either of the other estates, The sale has been adjourned until to-morrow. AMUSEMENTS. “The Lady of Lyons” Last Night at Booth’s. “The Lady of Lyons,” one of the most popular Pieces Of trash ever written, was produced last evening at Booth’s Theatre for the purpose of* allowing Mrs, J. B. Booth to appear im the charac- ter of Pauline, Tne audience was fair in size and enthusiastic in temperament, and neither of the principal actors could justly complain that the poetis and sensuously padded buncombe of Lord Lytton was not sufiiciently applauded. The parts were so distributed as to present, in addition to Mrs, Booth as Pauline, Miss Wells as Mme. Deschapeiles, Mr. Wheelock as Clande Melnotte, Mr. Pateman aa Glavis and Mr. Stark as Colonel Damas. The Pauline of Mrs. Booth was what was to have been expected of the intelligence, conscientiousness and ambition that have marked her succea- sive interpretations during the season. We will not say it was ladylike; that would imply too little. We not say is ‘was passionate or highly strung*that would imply too much. It was the outcome of a regularly trained actress anxious to shine in legitimate roles and gilted witn certain facilities fordoing so. Mra, booth preserved the sense of purity which the wronged and insulted beauty of Lyons sustained through all the bumiliation which the selfishness and weakness of her lover brought upon her. She poweriul in scenes like that where she discovers Claude’s treachery, in the third act, which called for power. But the performance was chaste, correct and polished; and if 1t was reer from passion than could have bcen wished it was marred by no tinge of the meretricioua. Mr. Wheelock was ent Hog ial nd guiet. Now, there is a Qtiletiéds w' is ath panage of power, and there 18 a quietness which belongs to indifereuce and want of earnestness. It was this latter kind of calmness which Mr. Wheelock evinced, and it was a calmness 4ittle to his credit as an acter. The piece was carelully placed upon the stage. with regret, appears as Juliet in “Romeo and Juliet.” Her season has not been unsuccessful, and we can only hope that to-night’s interpretation will orm 8 Dot inappropriate climax. Musical and Dramatic Notes. Tne Amateur Philbarmonic Society concertise this evening at Steinway Hall. Two promenade concerts are announced for this evening—one at the Seventh Regiment Armory and the other by the Twenty-third Regiment Band. ‘The Academy of Music this evening will be de- voted to a dramatic entertainment for the benefit of the poor of the Ninth ward. The entertainment will .consist of the melodrama entitled “Black Sheep” and the farce of “Box and Cox," both per. formed by the Murray Hill Amateur Dramatic As- sociation. Mr. Strakosch announces positively the opening of the epring season of Italian opera at the Acad- emy of Music on Monday evening, on which oc- casion Verd!’s last and grandest work, “Alda,” will be given, with Miles. Torriani and Cary and Messrs. Campanini, Nannetti and Del Puente in ‘The iliness of Mme. Nilsson and fears that it might interfere with her appearance on Monday suggests this change of opera. The Caroline Richings-Bernard Musical Union gave a concert at Steinway Hall last night before alarge audience. The programme was made up of part songs, very excellently rendered; selec- tions by Mrs. Richings-Bernard and her husband, and harp and piano solos, Although not aiming at any high standard of art, these concerts are inter- esting in many respects, variety and ensemble peing the principal feature. A matinée will pe given to-day. The matin¢es to-day will include “Leather Stocking” at Niblo’s, the usual Colosseum exhi- bition, Mrs, J. B, Booth as Pauline at Booth’s The- gtre, “Money” at Wallack’s, excellent miscel- Janeous entertainments at the Olympic and the Grand Opera House, ‘‘Folline’’ (for the last time) at the Fitth Avenue, “4 Quiet Family’ and “Old Times’? at Wood's Museum; extremely diversified bills at Tony Pastor’s, the Metropolitan Theatre, the Theatre Comique and: Bryant’s; “White Swan” at the New Park and “Amy Rob- sart” at Mra, Conway's. M. Fritz Hirschy will, this evening, receive & benefit at the Lyceum, ‘To this end a French comedy, @ French vaudeville and an English drama have been provided. The vaudeville con- sists of “Un Mart Céltbataire,” by M. Roster, and will present M, L, Plaenval as Oscar Lecoraier, and Mme, Hassa as Louise. “Delicate Ground,” by Charles Dance, will offer Mr. Charles Wheatleigh as Sangfroid, Mr. F. Percy as Alphonse de Grandier and Mrs. Fanny Foster as Pauline. The comedy is “Les Femmes Qui Pleu- ” Jacques Lambert. The distribution Rana, Piainval as Chamfy, Gautier as Albert de Ricux, Moreau as Jean, Mme, Hassa as Delphine and Mile. Briot as Clothilde. During one of the intermsions Mile. E. B. Latailie, a pupil of the Conservatory of Paris, will give a favorite recita- tion,» The great feature of this evening is the pro- duction at the Filth Avenue Theatre of “Love's Labor’s Lost.” We observe thut some discussion is going On in regard to the correct orthography of the ttl This is @ question interesting to anti- and literary connoisseurs, not withous tility we admit, but, alter all, ot little use compared with the two great questi —] the comedy worth producing at the present a A and, if 80, “Will it be worthily produced?” have no information that this comedy has ever been brought out in New York, though there seems to be no doubt it was produced in Philadel- hia some twelve or fiiteen years ago, Meanwhile i may be interesting for those who are curious tm Shakespearean orthoepy to learn that in the orig- inal edition of 1598 both “love” and “labor,” in the title “Love's Labor's Lost,” were put im the piural, and without apostrophes; that in the folio edition Oi 1623 “love” appeared in the plural, without am apostrophe, and “labor” appeared in the possess. ive singular, Mason insists that this method te incorrect; Knight maintatns thet the author in. tended to name his play “Love's Labor Is Laat.”